EXHIBITION OF 1862. 
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ume of awards, I have been enabled to make the following 
synopsis of the number of entries made and the proportion of 
medals won by some of the leading nations represented : 
Great Britain made 6,966 entries, and won 1,640 medals, or one for every 
4.24 entries. 
The British colonies made 3,245 entries, and won 768 medals, or one for 
every 4.22 entries. 
France made 3,636 entries, and won 1,381 medals, or one for every 2.63 
entries. 
Zollverein States made 2,876 entries, and won 705 medals, or one for every 
4.07 entries. 
Italy made 2,070 entries, and won 327 medals, or one for every 6.33 
entries. 
Austria made 1,410 entries, and won 490 medals, or one for every 2.84 
entries. 
Spain made 1,133 entries, and won 120 medals, or one for every 9.44 
entries. 
Belgium made 862 entries, and won 239 medals, or one for every 3.6 
entries. 
Turkey made 787 entries, and won 176 medals, or one for every 3.37 
entries. 
Russia made 729 entries, and won 162 medals, or one for every 4.43 
entries > 
United States made 113 entries, and won 57 medals, or one for every 1.98 
entries. 
The total of awards to the American department including 
“honorable mentions,” was eighty-seven—a much larger pro¬ 
portion than was received by any other nation. 
But mere awards, whether of medals and honorable men¬ 
tions, or of medals alone—which is the better test—do not 
decide the real merit of the exhibition or any part of it; we 
must also know upon what classes of articles those honors 
were conferred. To meet, to some extent, this demand, the 
following tabulated synopsis is presented : 
